Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work is a part of Moscow campus of HSE University, which unites a large team of volunteers, where students of the university and of the lyceum, as well as HSE University staff and alumni can contribute to making more good deeds in HSE and in the country in general.
The Center's volunteers help the university to organize major festivals, Open Days, and they volunteer at conferences and events of NGO partners. We also manage the kind student organizations, supervise leaders of the volunteer movement in HSE, develop trainings and educational trips for volunteers.
Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work provides administrative support to charitable student organizations.
Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work provides volunteers for events inside HSE and around the city.
Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work helps the older generation, children with experience of orphanhood, and young adults with mental disabilities.
Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work organizes blood donations with partnering organizations and popularizes donation practices in the university.
The Center for Leadership and Volunteer Work cooperates with cultural institutions and involves students in the preservation of historical and cultural heritage, restoration work and the organization of exhibitions.
Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work organizes educational events for volunteers, teaches first aid skills, team leadership and media volunteering.
Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work in numbers
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6500
volunteers
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900
projects and events for 5 years
in 2022 -
175
partnering organizations and NGOs
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5
charitable student organizations
Our volunteers about their experience
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Anna Sorokina, student of the bachelor's program "Sociology"
Currently, volunteering is more of a research function for me. Different situations occur, I am trying out new roles and am taking on different tasks. It helps me understand what I can and can't do, what I like, and what I find difficult to accept. During this process, new facets of my personality are being revealed.
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Alyona Kolesnikova, a student of the master's program "Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: from neuron to cognition"
The main thing I've learned through volunteering is that help doesn't always have to be large. You don't have to be a superhero. Kindness can be very simple: wish a good day to a guest at an event, pay attention to a child in an orphanage, take a walk with a dog from a shelter, tie a scarf for an elderly person, offer a glass of water to a participant in the race. It seems like a small thing, but someone needs such help.
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Misha Mazhuga, an alumnus of HSE University
Throughout your volunteer career, you are energized by meeting and communicating with kind people who have the same values as yourself, as well as from cool and interesting events. I believe that my university has shaped me as a completely different person, has given me new opportunities, and everything I have has brought me to where I am now. Volunteering has become a kind of expression of gratitude and love for HSE, and combined with the friendliest community, the atmosphere, and the guys we constantly cross paths with at events, it's amazing.
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Katya Kudryavtseva, the bachelor's program "Languages and Literature of Southeast Asia"
I believe that if I have any resource, whether it's time, love, care, money, knowledge, or anything else, then I definitely need to share it with people in order to make their lives brighter or simpler. Of course, a certain sense of confusion also "pushes" from the inside: when you start to think about why there are much fewer opportunities in someone's life for reasons completely beyond the control of the person himself than others. Then a strong desire arises to try to bring the world to justice.
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Olesya Netrebenko, a student of the St. Petersburg bachelor's program "Media Communications"
Now I can't imagine my life without volunteering. I understand that I am doing something good, and the most valuable thing is people's smiles. I like helping everyone in need: the city, organizations, people, etc. Volunteering has helped me to believe in myself and to learn how to overcome difficulties. Volunteering has taught me a lot, for example, how to deal with blind people and how to urgently come to the aid of those in need.
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Katya Romantsova, the bachelor's program "History"
Volunteering suddenly became my place of development. I go to volunteer for the next race even by 7 a.m. Now, because of my studies, I don't "live" in the office of the Volunteer Center, as I did in my first and second years. But I'm still incredibly happy if I manage to find the time and help at an event. Volunteering is incredibly energizing, which takes away the learning routine!